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List of recipients

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List of laureates awarded with the Bharat Ratna[9][10]
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Laureates

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C.

Independence activist, last and only

Rajagopalachari

Indian Governor-General of India

C. V. Raman

Nobel laureate physicist (1930)

Sarvepalli

Philosopher, India's first Vice-President (195262),

Radhakrishnan

and second President (196267)

Bhagwan Das

Visvesvaraya

Independence activist,theosophist, and founder

ofMahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith

Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore (191218),

and Knight Commander of the Indian Empire

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Jawaharlal Nehru Independence activist, author, and first Prime

[32][33]

Minister of India (194764)

1957

1958

1961

1962

Govind Ballabh

Independence activist, firstChief Minister of Uttar

Pant

Pradesh (195054)

Dhondo Keshav
Karve

Social reformer

Bidhan Chandra

Physician-Surgeon and second Chief Minister of

Roy

West Bengal (194862)

Purushottam Das
Tandon

Rajendra Prasad

Independence activist, educator

Independence activist, lawyer, first President of India

(195062)

[34][35]

[36]

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Independence activist, second Vice-President of

Zakir Hussain

India (195062), and third President of India (1962

[27][28][41]

67)

1963

1966

1971

Pandurang
Vaman Kane

Indologist and Sanskrit scholar

Lal Bahadur

Independence activist and second Prime Minister of

Shastri

India (196467)

Indira Gandhi

Former Prime Minister of India (196677, 198084)

1975

V. V. Giri

1976

K. Kamaraj

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Trade unionist, first Acting President of India, and

fourth President of India (196974)
Independence activist and former Chief Minister of
Tamil Nadu (195457, 195762, 196263)

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1980

1983

1987

1988

Mother Teresa

Vinoba Bhave

Khan Abdul
Ghaffar Khan

Catholic nun, founder of theMissionaries of

Charity andNobel peace prize laureate(1979)

Independence activist, social reformer, and Ramon

Magsaysay Award laureate(1958)

Independence activist

M. G.

Film actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

Ramachandran

(197780, 198084, 198587)

B. R.

Chief architect of the Indian Constitution and social

Ambedkar

reformer

Nelson

Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South

Mandela

Africa andNobel Peace Prize laureate(1993)

Rajiv Gandhi

Sixth Prime Minister of India (198489)

Vallabhbhai

Independence activist and firstDeputy Prime Minister

Patel

of India(194750)

[45]

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1990

1991

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Morarji Desai

Abul Kalam
Azad

1992

Independence activist and fourth Prime Minister of

India (197779)

Independence activist

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J. R. D. Tata

Industrialist and philanthropist

[4]

Satyajit Ray

Filmmaker

[4]

Independence activist and two times interim Prime

Gulzarilal Nanda

Aruna Asaf Ali

Independence activist

A. P. J. Abdul

Aerospace and Defense Scientist, eleventh

Kalam

President of India (200207)

Minister of India

[33]
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1997

M. S.
Subbulakshmi

1998

Carnatic classical vocalist

Chidambaram

Independence activist and former Minister of

Subramaniam

Agricultureof India (196466)

Jayaprakash
Narayan

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Independence activist and social reformer

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Ravi Shankar

Hindustani classical Sitarplayer

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Amartya Sen

Nobel laureate economist (1998)

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Gopinath

Independence activist, firstChief Minister of

Bordoloi

Assam(194650)

1999

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Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer

[66]

Bismillah Khan

Hindustani classical Shehnaiplayer

[67]

Bhimsen Joshi

Hindustani classical vocalist

C. N. R. Rao

Chemist

2001

2009

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2013

Sachin Tendulkar Cricketer

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